IVA
/ˈivɜ/
The verdict
“IVA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,221) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,221
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sigla de Imposto sobre o Valor Acrescentado
Corpus desk
Index PT-iva · IVA · Portuguese
IVA · rank #21,221 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,221
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH isento
Nearest frequency peer: isento (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “IVA”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- inesperadam…
inesperadamente
78,792 corpus weight
- internauta
internauta
78,785 corpus weight
- isento
isento
78,782 corpus weight
- IVA
IVA
78,780 corpus weight
- lau
lau
78,771 corpus weight
- malucas
malucas
78,765 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “IVA” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IVA |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /ˈivɜ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “IVA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IVA is neighbouring look-alikes ("I", "ir", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /ˈivɜ/. Frequency #21,221 among 938 “I” headwords. Gloss: "sigla de Imposto sobre o Valor Acrescentado".
Zero misspellings are on record for IVA in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "I", "ir", "in", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is IVA, spelled I-V-A.
Definition
- 1sigla de Imposto sobre o Valor Acrescentado
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).